FLYP Magazine dives into Detroit and where it can go.
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She sees the same thing happening in Akron and Oakland and Milwaukee
and buffalo - a transition she calls, "as far-reaching as the one from
hunting and gathering 11,000 years ago to agriculture. And from
agriculture to industry 300 years ago."
A political activist since the 1930s, she has no illusion that the
transition will be easy. But, like her husband, she does not think
progress can depend on help from on high or outside, whether from
President Barack Obama or anybody else.
"We are the leaders we've been waiting for," she says.
Neither Boggs, nor the many other young and old activist who are trying
to remake Detroit, pretend that utopia is at hand. But in the depths of
post-industrial blight, they're finding reasons for hope.
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